plight
plight 英 [plaɪt] 美 [plaɪt]
n. 苦难；困境
进行时:plighting 过去式:plighted 过去分词:plighted 第三人称单数:plights 名词复数:plights
- A plight is a situation that's hard to get out of. Learning about the plight of very poor people trying to rebuild their homes after a devastating earthquake might inspire you to send money to a charity.
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- n. 苦难；困境
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1. the plight of the homeless
无家可归者的艰难困苦
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2. The African elephant is in a desperate plight.
非洲象正面临绝境。
- plight (n.1) "condition or state (usually bad)," late 12c., "danger, harm, strife," from Anglo-French plit, pleit, Old French pleit, ploit "condition" (13c.), originally "way of folding," from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum, neuter past participle of Latin plicare "to fold, lay" (from PIE root *plek- "to plait").
- plight (n.2) "pledge," mid-13c., "pledge, promise," usually involving risk or loss in default, from Old English pliht "danger, risk, peril, damage," from Proto-Germanic *pleg- (source also of Old Frisian plicht "danger, concern, care," Middle Dutch, Dutch plicht "obligation, duty," Old High German pfliht, German Pflicht "obligation, duty" (see plight (v.)). Compare Old English plihtere "look-out man at the prow of a ship," plihtlic "perilous, dangerous."
- plight (v.) "to pledge" (obsolete except in archaic plight one's troth), from Old English pligtan, plihtan "to endanger, imperil, compromise," verb form of pliht (n.) "danger, risk," from PIE root *dlegh- "to engage oneself, be or become fixed." Related: Plighted; plighting.
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